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Best Poems From
LAURENCE OVERMIRE
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Hot Springs
When a poem bubbles up
Out of the crevice
In the ground
You’d better cup your hands
Your mind
To catch it, quick
Before it vanishes
Into air.
(Previously published in The Short North Gazette, Feb 2000)
Laurence Overmire
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How Old?
Ask me my age and I’ll tell you
True
I’m somewhere between
Birth and Death
Are you?
(Previously published in Badosa,2003)
Laurence Overmire
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223.
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I asked (haiku)
I asked the question
but the answer never came
the wind hears nothing
Laurence Overmire
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I heard her whisper (senryu)
I heard her whisper once
a breath so soft it tickled
a dream that slipped away
Laurence Overmire
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